A 32-channel lattice transmission line array for parallel transmit and receive MRI at 7 tesla.

abstract：:The potential of quantitative parameter images of the relaxation times T1 and T2, the proton density rho and the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) to characterize three different experimental rat brain tumors (F98 glioma, RN6 Schwannoma, and E376 neuroblastoma) was studied. All parameter values, as determined in hi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Eis M,Els T,Hoehn-Berlage M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A new T1 mapping method is proposed that is accurate, rapid, and robust to motion. Considering these features, the method is dubbed "T-One with Enhanced Robustness and Speed (TOWERS)." METHODS:TOWERS is composed of inversion recovery (IR) and saturation recovery (SR) acquisitions. In the IR acquisitions, a sli...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Eldeniz C,Finsterbusch J,Lin W,An H

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segmented interleaved echo planar imaging offers a fast and efficient approach to magnetic resonance angiography. Unfortunately, this technique is particularly sensitive to oblique flow in the imaging plane. In this work, a mathematical analysis of oblique flow effects for several types of k-space coverage is presente...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Beck G,Li D,Haacke EM,Noll TG,Schad LR

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Any number of coils can in principle be used simultaneously and independently in magnetic resonance imaging if the mutual inductances are sufficiently small. Surface coils and head or body coils have equal sensitivity at some crossover depth of the order of 6 to 10 cm. Using a 7.5-cm-diameter surface coil that was int...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hyde JS,Froncisz W,Jesmanowicz A,Kneeland JB

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To obtain whole-brain high-resolution T2 maps in 2 minutes by combining simultaneous multislice excitation and low-power PINS (power independent of number of slices) refocusing pulses with undersampling and a model-based reconstruction. METHODS:A multi-echo spin-echo sequence was modified to acquire multiple s...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hilbert T,Schulz J,Marques JP,Thiran JP,Krueger G,Norris DG,Kober T

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a new parallel transmit (pTx) pulse design for simultaneous multiband (MB) excitation in order to tackle simultaneously the problems of transmit B1 (B1+) inhomogeneity and total radiofrequency (RF) power, so as to allow for optimal RF excitation when using MB pulses for slice acceleration for high an...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wu X,Schmitter S,Auerbach EJ,Moeller S,Uğurbil K,Van de Moortele PF

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatially resolved spectroscopy (SPARS) is a method for obtaining high-resolution NMR spectra of well-defined volumes of human tissues in situ. This method was combined with the Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill multiple-echo sequence for T2, and with inversion recovery for T1 relaxation measurements. Relaxation times obtaine...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Luyten PR,Anderson CM,den Hollander JA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gradient coil design algorithm capable of controlling the position of the homogeneous region of interest (ROI) with respect to the current-carrying wires is required for many advanced imaging and spectroscopy applications. A modified minimum inductance target field method that allows the placement of a set of constr...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chronik BA,Rutt BK

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have noninvasively produced low-resolution, quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance images of cerebral blood flow in 2-ml voxels in eight cats. Typical signal-to-noise of 4 to 1 was obtained in cerebral voxels in 16.5-s epochs. Mean flow during normocapnia (paCO2 = 39 +/- 4 mm Hg) and hypercapnia (paCO2 = 62 +/- 4 ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Branch CA,Ewing JR,Helpern JA,Ordidge RJ,Butt S,Welch KM

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To improve the quality and speed of electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI) acquisition by combining a uniform sampling distribution with spinning gradient acquisition. THEORY AND METHODS:A uniform sampling distribution was derived for spinning gradient EPRI acquisition (uniform spinning sampling, USS) ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Johnson DH,Ahmad R,Liu Y,Chen Z,Samouilov A,Zweier JL

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for efficiently processing MRS data acquired with phased-array coils is presented. The method consists of performing phase compensation (i.e., redefining the signal phase relative to a common reference) of the signals in the time domain prior to combining the signals. The resulting spectra are equivalent ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Brown MA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is (1) to determine the correlation between T(1rho) and T(2) and degenerative grade in intervertebral discs using in vivo 3.0-T MRI, and (2) to determine the association between T(1rho) and T(2) and clinical findings as quantified by the SF-36 Questionnaire and Oswestry Disability Index. Sixt...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Blumenkrantz G,Zuo J,Li X,Kornak J,Link TM,Majumdar S

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To design hyperbolic secant (HS) excitation pulses to reduce signal dropout in the orbitofrontal and inferior temporal regions in gradient-echo echo-planar imaging (GE-EPI) for functional MRI (fMRI) applications. METHODS:An algorithm based on Bloch simulations optimizes the HS pulse parameters needed to give t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wastling SJ,Barker GJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accelerated magnetic resonance imaging techniques reduce signal acquisition time by undersampling k-space. A fundamental problem in accelerated magnetic resonance imaging is the recovery of quality images from undersampled k-space data. Current state-of-the-art recovery algorithms exploit the spatial and temporal stru...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Asif MS,Hamilton L,Brummer M,Romberg J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea of using parallel imaging to shorten the acquisition time by the simultaneous use of multiple receive coils can be adapted for the parallel transmission of a spatially-selective multidimensional RF pulse. As in data acquisition, a multidimensional RF pulse follows a certain k-space trajectory. Shortening this...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Katscher U,Börnert P,Leussler C,van den Brink JS

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperpolarized gases ((129)Xe and (3)He) are being used increasingly in both MRI and NMR spectroscopy studies. However, it has been shown that carrier agents are required to preserve the long relaxation times of gases in biological fluids. Optimized gas transport can be achieved through controlled T(1) and T(2) measur...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Oregioni A,Parizel N,de Sousa PL,Grucker D

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To enable highly accelerated distortion-free MRI near metal by separating on- and off-resonance to exploit the redundancy of slice-phase encoding for the dominant on-resonance component. METHODS:Multispectral MRI techniques resolve off-resonance distortions by a combination of limited excitation bins and addit...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Levine E,Stevens K,Beaulieu C,Hargreaves B

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a variety of methods have been proposed to provide automated adjustment of shim homogeneity, these methods typically fail or require large numbers of iterations in vivo when applied to regions with poor homogeneity, such as the temporal lobe. These limitations are largely due to 1) the limited accuracy of sin...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hetherington HP,Chu WJ,Gonen O,Pan JW

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The equal-phase line (EPL) algorithm is proposed as a means of allowing rapid Fourier transform (FT) reconstruction of MR image data acquired on a non-Cartesian grid. The pixels on the image are grouped according to their positions. The pixels in a group have the same phase in the complex exponential function -exp[j2p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Qian Y,Lin J,Jin D

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) MRI data sets from limited-view projections is investigated in phantom and in vivo animal studies to improve the temporal resolution of magnetic resonance angiography without sacrificing spatial resolution. Thirty-two pairs of orthogonal biplane projections are ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Huang Y,Gurr D,Wright GA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore the temperature-induced signal change in two-dimensional multi-spectral imaging (2DMSI) for fast thermometry near metallic hardware to enable MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) in patients with implanted metallic hardware. METHOD:2DMSI was optimized for temperature sensitivity and applied...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Weber H,Ghanouni P,Pascal-Tenorio A,Pauly KB,Hargreaves BA

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of the outcome in a diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) experiment depends on the acquisition scheme as well as the postprocessing methods used. In the present study, the DTI results acquired after applying different combinations of diffusion-weighted (DW) gradient orientations were initially compared. Then, s...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Arfanakis K,Cordes D,Haughton VM,Carew JD,Meyerand ME

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pulse sequence is presented for obtaining a single image with combined T1/T2 weighting. T2 relaxation is made to increase intensity, in cooperation with the effect of T1 relaxation, by providing T2 weighting with a 90 degrees-180 degrees-90 degrees driven inversion pulse triplet in an inversion recovery method. Unli...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Conturo TE,Kessler RM,Beth AH

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic imaging strategies often involve updating certain areas of k-space (i.e., the low spatial frequencies) more frequently than others. However, important dynamic signal changes may occur anywhere in k-space. In this study, a dynamic k-space sampling analysis method was developed to determine the energy error asso...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wu Y,Alexander AL

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainty regarding the intracellular/extracellular distribution of inorganic phosphate (P(i)) in tumors has raised concerns that pH calculated from the tumor P(i) chemical shift may not accurately represent the intracellular pH (pHin). This issue was addressed in subcutaneously transplanted murine radiation induced...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Soto GE,Zhu Z,Evelhoch JL,Ackerman JJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absolute partial pressure of oxygen (pO(2)) in the mammary gland pad and femoral muscle of female mice was measured using EPR oximetry at 700 MHz. A small quantity of lithium phthalocyanine (LiPc) crystals was implanted in both mammary and femoral muscle tissue of female C3H mice. Subsequent EPR measurements were ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Matsumoto A,Matsumoto S,Sowers AL,Koscielniak JW,Trigg NJ,Kuppusamy P,Mitchell JB,Subramanian S,Krishna MC,Matsumoto K

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TOMROP is a multiple readout single inversion-recovery sequence which may potentially allow the measurement of multi-exponential T1 recoveries in vivo by NMR imaging. It is shown that several important modifications must be made to this sequence to permit T1 to be measured accurately and reliably. With these modificat...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gowland PA,Leach MO

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calibration of the spatial sensitivity functions of coil arrays is a crucial element in parallel magnetic resonance imaging (PMRI). The most common approach has been to measure coil sensitivities directly using one or more low-resolution images acquired before or after accelerated data acquisition. However, since it i...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： McKenzie CA,Yeh EN,Ohliger MA,Price MD,Sodickson DK

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of an in-plane B(1) sensitivity encoding (SENSE) technique with a simultaneous multiple-slice B(0) field step technique (multiple-acquisition micro B(0) array (MAMBA)) has produced high scan time reduction factors (R < or = 8). In this study, two slices were acquired simultaneously in combination with ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Paley MN,Lee KJ,Wild JM,Fichele S,Whitby EH,Wilkinson ID,Van Beek EJ,Griffiths PD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a postprocessing algorithm that corrects geometric distortions due to spatial variations of the static magnetic field amplitude, B0 , and effects from relaxation during signal acquisition in EPI. THEORY AND METHODS:An analytic, complex point-spread function is deduced for k-space trajectories of EPI...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Patzig F,Mildner T,Schlumm T,Müller R,Möller HE

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00